53 occurrences in 13 translations

'People' in the Bible

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

Verse ConceptsPeople TeachingEncouraging OthersWeakness

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfSuffering, Of The InnocentNot DyingA Righteous PeoplePlea Of Innocence

or say "Deliver me from my enemy's control,' or "Redeem me from the domination of ruthless people'?"

Verse ConceptsNo One Can Save

Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples of

Surely He knows which people are worthless.If He sees iniquity, will He not take note of it?

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingUseless People

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Verse ConceptsIrony

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Verse ConceptsWanderersFoolishness Of Men

For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRidicule, Objects OfSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The Righteous

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Verse ConceptsBywordSaliva

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsReasons For Barrenness

People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror.

Verse ConceptsWestEast And WestPeople Appalledfate

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

Verse ConceptsUnseen

“The [dirt] clods of the valley are sweet to him [and gently cover him],Moreover, all men will follow after him [to a grave],While countless ones go before him.

Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,

Verse ConceptsLength Of LifeEvil Ways

When people are brought low and you say 'Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast;

Verse ConceptsAshesGod And The HumbleHumility And Pride

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesProperty, LandStealingStonesSuffering, Causes OfLandmarksTaking AnimalsPurgatory

From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.

Verse ConceptsPurgatory

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,in places unknown to those who walk above ground.Suspended far away from people,the miners swing back and forth.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

"When people heard me speak, they blessed me; when people saw me, they approved me,

Verse ConceptsCommendation

"People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being Silent

They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.

Verse ConceptsRainSpringWeather, As God's JudgmentLight Of God's People

They were expelled from human society;people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

Verse ConceptsPeople Ostracised

Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of Strength

People in my household have said, "We cannot find anyone who has not been satisfied with his meat,' haven't they?

"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

Verse ConceptsHiding SinsGuilt

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent

In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep falls on peopleas they slumber on their beds,

Verse ConceptsNight

Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,

Verse ConceptsThe Faculty Of Hearingmovement

"Listen to what I have to say, you wise men! Pay attention to me, you educated people!

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

traffics in those who practice evil, and walks with wicked people?

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinEvildoersCompanionship

"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}: far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness} and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!Is God Unjust?Pay Attention To People!Work Ethic

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Verse ConceptsMidnightSudden Death

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

Verse ConceptsHypocrisy

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

Verse ConceptsActing For Oneselfwickednesshurting

People cry out because of severe oppression;they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Verse ConceptsArmsSuffering, Hardshipoppression

“The people cry out, but He does not answerBecause of the pride of evil men.

Verse ConceptsArrogance, Characterizes The WickedGod Not Answeringarrogance

Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyGuidance, God's Promises OfGod, Impartiality OfMighty One

He won't stop looking at righteous people; he seats them on thrones with kings forever, and they are exalted.

Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheGod Seeing The RighteousPeople Of The Kingdom

If people are bound with chainsand trapped by the cords of affliction,

Remember that you should praise His work,which people have sung about.

All mankind has seen it;people have looked at it from a distance.

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's Worksdistance

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

Verse ConceptsGod Feeds All The Earth

"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do.

Verse ConceptsMen WorkingWeather In The Last Daysweather

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart."

Verse ConceptsWorldly WisdomFalse WisdomRespecting Your Body

To bring rain on a land without people,On a desert without a man in it,

Verse ConceptsEmpty By NatureTaking Care Of The Earth

Bible Theasaurus

Citizenry (1 instance)
Commonwealth (2 instances)
Masses (21 instances)
Million (4 instances)
Multitude (361 instances)
Populate (4 instances)

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